The perfect date-night menu

Date night, what’s not to love about spending time with your significantly other? It’s easy to forget to actually sit down with each other and enjoy a nice home-made meal once in a while if you are on a busy schedule. For those of you who are indeed on a busy routine, it’s best to schedule your date night. This will give you plenty of time beforehand to plan the menu, go out to buy groceries and preparing the ingredients. Since it’s probably no much fun for your partner when you have to cook for an hour or two before sitting down and enjoying the dinner, do some mise en place. Which basically means that you have to prepare and plan.

The perfect date-night menu

Now, planning a date night is nothing scary or labor intensive. All you need to do is figure out what kind of food you both really like, look up the ingredients and write them down on your grocery list. Perhaps you like wine, beer or even water with lemon juice. In this case it’s all about preparation. To help you out with your date night menu, we’ve put up a 4 course menu below. You can decide for yourself whether you are going to make all four courses, since this is just a push in the right direction. We went with mediterranean food this time, because we think most of you would really like it. We’ve added a few choices for each course you can choose from. You can actually click on the titles to view the recipe. Check out the menu below:

THE MENU

Appetizer

Risotto stuffed bell peppers

French onion soup

Artichoke with shallot vinaigrette

Salad

Poached egg asparagus salad

Strawberry goat cheese salad

Nicoise salad

Main course

Home-made pasta with bacon wrapped chicken

Beef kale and parsnip with ras el hanout sauce

Balsamic mushroom spaghetti

Dessert

Strawberry basil pie

Lemon curd mousse

Avocado ice cream

Drinks

Green tea matcha latte

Cointreau fizz blood orange cocktail

Rum lime and brown sugar cocktail

Pick one recipe out of each course, you can click on the image to view its recipe. Hopefully this little how-to has helped you plan (and cook!) for a perfect date-night. Let us know what you think by using the comment box on this page. Enjoy!

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Veronique works as a chef and Marco builds websites. We've started ohmydish.com in 2014 to give us a way of sharing our recipes with the world. Since we like all kinds of foods, you'll see dishes from every kitchen imaginable. Our recipes are not specifically healthy, vegan, easy or frugal, but they do have one thing in common: they are all made with passion. You can contact us if you have any questions about food, recipes or our food blog.